Looking to the Future

"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear" - Antonio Gramsci

It's an odd time, right? As I write this we're waiting on new points and new ships, and the tournement season seems to have would down, and who hell knows what is going on with Store-level Organised Play, and yet here we are, a toy spaceship addiction to feed. What to do, what to do. 

Where's Your Head At?

So welcome again to another episode of "Things I talk about in the car with the Teenager", or "Parenting Hormonal Monsters for X-Wing Players". OK, so that's a little mean, but it has been an interesting couple of weeks on the gaming front and we've ended up talking a lot about psychology, and mental processing, of all things. So let's get into it, after the cat. 

Who's the Casual Now?! (Spoiler Alert: It Me)

Hello, and welcome back to another blog on "Conversations I have with The Teenager in the Car". It's a thing now, clearly. This weekend was a big one for us on the X-Wing front, as we hit not one but two tournements with new shiny lists we didn't know how to fly. It went about as well as you'd expect (more on that in a moment) but it also brought up an interesting conversation. You see, back when we started out playing somewhere other than the kitchen table, one of the things were told about was "Serious Players". Oddly, Element Games' Sith Takers were held up as "Serious Players", a dark place beyond the Pennines "Serious Games" were played with "Serious Lists". But there is an assumption behind this, if you think about it, about the old Casual/Serious split, and so that's really what I'm thinking about now.

Todays List Building Challenge is How to Get the List From the Cat

On Expectation, the Enemy of Fun

Well hello again. It turns out a bunch of you read my last blog so dammit, I just have to do another one. We went to our first tournament of the year this Sunday - the "Wave 1 Championship" at Travelling Man Leeds, our home store. 16 players, four rounds of Tiny Spaceships and only the second week of the year, and so inevitably I wanted to try out a new list I had next to no practice with. Oh yes, that's how we roll. Below is a verified true image of the reaction I get in my house when I explain how this latest new list is going to be "great". 

Event: IQ Gaming X-Wing Regional Tournament

Gosh it has been a while since I got anything down here, but life, as they say, barrels onwards towards the existential horror of the Heat Death of the Universe, or something like that. We've been busy, and one of the things I wanted to get down on (virtual) paper was mine and Ewan's experience at our first competitive gaming tournament, an X-Wing Miniatures Game Regional held at IQ Gaming in Huddersfield last weekend. Neither of us have done anything like this before, so it was with some trepidation we found ourselves in a 3-storey building full of gaming tables and about 130 competitors. So here's how I got on.